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Offline Ripsnort

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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2010, 08:44:47 AM »
Quote from: oakranger on November 22, 2010, 07:56:03 AM
I can not image the fear he gone through.  Plane no longer flyable, will I survive the crash or not?! I am going down on main land Japan, will I survive the ordeal of POW or not?!
If you ever want to level-set your life, and be very thankful for what you have, no matter what kind of life you're leading...read "A P.O.W.'S Story: 2801 days in Hanoi" by Col. Larry Guarino.
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2010, 10:01:33 AM »
Quote from: Ripsnort on November 22, 2010, 08:44:47 AM
If you ever want to level-set your life, and be very thankful for what you have, no matter what kind of life you're leading...read "A P.O.W.'S Story: 2801 days in Hanoi" by Col. Larry Guarino.

I don't have to read a book, my dad's uncle was a POW in the Pacific.  Capture in  the Philippines 1942, Bataan death march, Camp O'Donnal, Hell ship to Manchuria and remain POW till Aug 1945.  Hear enough stories out of him. 

http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/search/pframe.asp?HonoreeID=1571281&popcount=9&tcount=18   :salute
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2010, 10:46:26 AM »
*hint*

Use Google Chrome and it translates everything. No extra translators needed...
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2010, 10:50:39 AM »
double..
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2010, 10:52:16 AM »
oops triple post
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2010, 04:27:35 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on November 22, 2010, 07:56:03 AM
I can not image the fear he gone through.  Plane no longer flyable, will I survive the crash or not?! I am going down on main land Japan, will I survive the ordeal of POW or not?!

From the thread on the WIX forum.

"...2nd Lt Donald Carlson was forced down in enemy territory due to a gas leak after the attack. He was reported as a probable prisoner-of-war.

(Carlson made "a hard landing in a plowed field. `Good luck to you guys; say Howdy to my wife´ he said calmly into his throat mike, `I´ll be seeing you at Mike´s.´ Carlson made good his promise; six months later he was liberated, alive and as well as a man could expect who had lost his teeth during frequent beatings, had been starved and put in solitary confinement for 40 days." -- Sherrod, History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II.)"

No doubt he was covering much of that fear with false bravado

2nd Lt. Donald Carlson
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2010, 05:51:07 PM »
Anyone know the source of the music in that video?  I'd be interested in knowing.

*EDIT*
Found it:
Journey To The Line by Hans Zimmer
From the Thin Red Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2010, 06:24:57 PM »
Quote from: Scherf on November 22, 2010, 02:11:38 AM
According to Joe Baugher's site, B-29 42-24766 (500th BG) was rammed by an enemy fighter Jan 3, 1945.  MACR 10905.

Japanese newsreels site here:

http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/jpnews/list.cgi


 :eek:

that's... comprehensive!

I wish there's an equivalent site for american newsreels (Universal?), german newsreels (Die Deutsche Wochenschau?), and soviet newsreels :pray
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2010, 01:37:44 AM »
Wochenschau can be downloaded from here:

http://nsl-archiv.info/Filme/Deutsche-Wochenschauen/heil.php

There's some good stuff on British Pathe, but you have to search around for it. Last I looked, it wasn't chronological, but that may have changed:

http://www.britishpathe.com/
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2010, 03:39:28 AM »
Quote from: Fulmar on November 22, 2010, 05:51:07 PM
Anyone know the source of the music in that video?  I'd be interested in knowing.

*EDIT*
Found it:
Journey To The Line by Hans Zimmer
From the Thin Red Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4

I was interested in that as well.   Beautiful and somber music.   I thought it might have been from "Last Samurai"?   It sounds familiar to me anyway.
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #25 on: November 23, 2010, 09:42:16 AM »
Quote from: oboe on November 23, 2010, 03:39:28 AM
I was interested in that as well.   Beautiful and somber music.   I thought it might have been from "Last Samurai"?   It sounds familiar to me anyway.

Soundtrack to Pearl Harbor. 
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #26 on: November 23, 2010, 09:30:37 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on November 22, 2010, 12:24:13 AM
On another forum the Corsair experts identified the bellied in Corsair as one from the Essex.  The pilot was taken prisoner and despite numerous beatings, he did survive the war.  Went down to an ack hit in a fuel line.
The white horizontal stripe on the tail would have been a VMF-124/213 off of the Essex.
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2010, 02:58:51 AM »
Quote from: Fulmar on November 22, 2010, 05:51:07 PM
Anyone know the source of the music in that video?  I'd be interested in knowing.

*EDIT*
Found it:
Journey To The Line by Hans Zimmer
From the Thin Red Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4

 :aok

I was looking for that one as well.
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2010, 03:57:31 AM »
Very, very interesting footage! Thank you Wayout!
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Re: Imperial Japanese Air Defence footage 1944-45
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2010, 12:23:28 PM »
J2Ms always look so odd to me when on the ground.  Like their landing gear are much too short.
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